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On this day in 1918, a Liberty Loan parade in Philadelphia prompts a huge outbreak of the flu epidemic in the city. By the time the epidemic ended, an estimated 30 million people were dead worldwide.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/flu-epidemic-hits-philadelphia

In the United States, Today is Parents' Day, held on the fourth Sunday of every July. This was established in 1994 when President Bill Clinton signed a Congressional Resolution into law for "recognizing, uplifting, and supporting the role of parents in the rearing of children."

Sudden and heavy fog causes two ships to collide, killing 322 people off the coast of Newfoundland on this day in 1854.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ships-collide-off-newfoundland

The Federal Trade Commission was created on September 26, 1914, when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Trade Commission Act into law.
https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/our-history

On September 25, 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signed legislation establishing America's second national park. Created to protect the giant sequoia trees from logging, Sequoia National Park was the first national park formed to protect a living organism: sequoiadendron giganteum.
https://www.nps.gov/seki/learn/historyculture/index.htm

On this day in 1948, motorcycle builder Soichiro Honda incorporates the Honda Motor Company in Hamamatsu, Japan.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/honda-motor-company-is-incorporated

OTD in 1846 German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovers the planet Neptune at the Berlin Observatory.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eighth-planet-discovered

Bicycle makers Charles and Frank Duryea show off the first American automobile produced for sale to the public by taking it on a maiden run through the streets of Springfield, Massachusetts.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-E-Duryea-and-J-Frank-Duryea

H.G. Wells, pioneer of science fiction, is born on this day in Bromley, England in 1866.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/h-g-wells-is-born

Happy Karen Martinez Day